Players have even lobbied game companies to improve their digital representations.
For Rodgers, getting involved in the D.C. lobbying game is inherently corrupting of the free-market, Silicon Valley spirit.
In the end, the accountants who want to be cut in on the lucrative work of merger and acquisition lawyers probably will find that their best odds are in the lobbying game.
The geothermal industry's not-so-politically-savvy leaders, mostly geologists and mechanical engineers, had since the 1980s been eclipsed by hard-charging solar and wind energy developers who play the lobbying game, and play it well.
"Relative to its size, Bahrain has punched above its weight in the PR & lobbying game; some estimates have their spending on public relations at more than $32M since the uprising in 2011," Kizer told HuffPost.
The digitally-based newcomers can no longer be seen as strangers to the lobbying game, especially not now with Facebook's most recent hires, Joel Kaplan and Myriah Jordan, both previously in George W. Bush's White House.
If nothing else, an extremely-powerful company that has experience in the DC lobbying game is finding out it won't get a new home in NYC without a fight that cuts at the core of the Democratic Party's identity.
In recent years, the lobbying game has changed thanks to social media websites, citizen journalism (described by one lobbyist as "a major irritant"), and online petitions capable of getting millions of signatures in a matter of hours.
If a firm decides not to participate in the lobbying game (or doesn't have the money 'to pay to play') -- when its competitors do -- the non-lobbying firm will likely be strategically disadvantaged (e.g., pay higher taxes, receive unfavorable depreciation treatment, inappropriate treatment of intellectual property, etc).
